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I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out… — Ujjwal Nikam
The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making mistakes. I no… — Ron Paul
The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings. — Nelson Mandela
Why waste a sentence saying nothing? — Seth Godin
'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so much more than that single… — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. — Barbara Kingsolver
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture,… — Douglas Hofstadter
...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars. — Mark Twain
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be… — Virginia Woolf
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. — Cyril Connolly
By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every… — Noam Chomsky
Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules… — Noam Chomsky
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction. — Scott Turow
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death. — Oscar Wilde
Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense… — Ann Brashares
I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that… — Ben Gibbard
You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into… — David Bowie
Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole. — John Mortimer
How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it! — Lennox Lewis
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. — Albert Einstein
With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you don’t so much… — Kevin Brockmeier
Just to be mentioned in the same sentence with those guys feels good, but I want to take it to another level. I respect those… — Takeo Spikes
And everything that comes out of my mouth is gonna be repeated in two-sentence-long bites for the next years of my life. Certain words travel… — Cory Monteith

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